By Losanjealous - Thursday February 04th 2010 |
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Daedelus, Nosaj Thing & Jogger @ Space 120, Palm Springs Thu 2/4
Daedelus, Nosaj Thing & Jogger @ Echoplex Fri 2/5
Three of our city’s finest electronic types hit the long and winding road starting tonight in Palm Springs (West Valley desert represent!) for a 22-show cross-country tour. Plus we wanted an excuse to run this pretty sweet hand drawn poster.
Daedelus | daedelusmusic.com
Nosaj Thing | nosajthing.com
Jogger | MySpace
By Losanjealous - Wednesday February 03rd 2010 |
Losanjealous is happy to welcome back to Pacific Palisades this weekend the 18-year-old rock star phenom of Japanese golf, the impressively coiffed, impeccably styled Ryo Ishikawa (石川 遼) a.k.a. the Bashful Prince (“Hanikami Ōji”).
SuperSport.com has a quote on his return to Riviera:
“Last year here, I was very, very nervous,” Ishikawa said Tuesday after an early practice round on the course nestled in the Pacific Palisades suburb of Los Angeles.
“But this year my mentality is much different. I experienced so many things last year. I’m much more comfortable.”
And of course, Ryo loves Los Angeles:
Ishikawa has visited a shopping mall in LA, and he tried In-N-Out Burger, the classic burger chain.
A huge fan of his, the Golf Girl assembled a collection of the varied pants stylings of Ryo:
By Victor - Wednesday February 03rd 2010 |
I admitted my expectations for the new season were unreasonable, so a let down was inevitable. I’m just not feeling the heavy mystical tone on which it seems the Island story is going to end. Reincarnations, manifestations, resurrections, all that crap. It’s just not nearly as compelling as the time travel theoretical (faux) science stuff, to me at least. (Remember back when it was theorized that the Smoke Monster might even be a swarm nanobots?)
On the narrative level, I guess we are looking a Schrodinger’s Cat or Many Worlds (thanks to your dad, E.) set up–with the parallel realities, simultaneous Island/Los Angeles narratives, which at some point will braid together and resolve. Personally, I’d be happy moving the whole story off the damn island for good already. (It’d be fun to see them run around Los Angeles for a while.) And this Genghis Khan-looking dude above, apparently a character of some heavy significance, showing up at this late stage of the game is just an annoying stalling tactic. It’s like a like a new video game boss showing up after you thought you had the game beat.
P.S. Can’t ABC get some quality CGI at this stage? That underwater composite shot looked like some kid knocked that out on iMovie on a Mac.
By Losanjealous - Wednesday February 03rd 2010 |
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Why? w/ The Donkeys & Josiah Wolf @ Glass House Thu 6/3
There was a lively back and forth on the topic of the significance of a band’s name, how it might affect their chances for success a little while ago.
Why? might prove/disprove any and all name-related strategies with solid indie-level success they seem to be having with their own impossibly broad moniker, complete with punctuation. Good for them.
By Victor - Wednesday February 03rd 2010 |
By Losanjealous - Wednesday February 03rd 2010 |
By Losanjealous - Tuesday February 02nd 2010 |
EW.com Music-Mix blog has the scoop on the making of the fun, colorful video:
After signing on to direct the video for “Open Your Heart,” Gondry went with Todd to scout locations in east Los Angeles. “Basically, L.A. is not made for humans. It’s a lot of concrete and cars passing by. It’s very blank, which is a great background to put all these people with colors.” Next, they cast their stars. “I needed a group of people who could move together, but it would have been too affected if they were professional dancers. We found this marching band from Riverside Community College.” Over three sunny days, Todd and 100 or so marching band members-turned-dancers brought Gondry’s vision to life.
Can you identify all the locations around town?
Mia Doi Todd featuring ASKA , Nick & Marcel & DJ Renteria @ Spaceland
Tue 2/2
Mia Doi Todd featuring Ariana Delawari , Correatown & Special Guest @ Spaceland
Tue 2/9
Mia Doi Todd and friends featuring Becky Stark , F. D. Scher & DJ Frosty @ Spaceland
Tue 2/16
Mia Doi Todd @ Bootleg Theater
Sun 3/21
By Victor - Tuesday February 02nd 2010 |
I admit to anticipating tonight’s return of Lost way out of proportion. I was going to recap where we are to date, but I can’t do better than this over-caffeinated, right-on ramble on Defamer (whipped out “from memory”) , so go read that there. Carlton and Lindelof’s tone in the pre-season press to ease fan expectation back ahead of the last season has been duly noted. It’s actually has me in a frame of mind wherein I will be fine without full, scientific explanations to every last question so long as the broader, overarching framework of the story ends up locking in place. Not that I wouldn’t say no to a real explanation of the Numbers or the Smoke Monster. But mostly just don’t fuck up the finale and I’m good.
If you never caught the short Lost Season 6 teaser from Spanish TV scored with Radiohead (“EIIRP”), I’ll stick it below for the hell of it. I just love it when a fitting convergence of art from disparate sources is figured out by third parties.
»continue reading Finally, The Lost Final Season Is Here, Finally
By Victor - Tuesday February 02nd 2010 |
By Losanjealous - Tuesday February 02nd 2010 |
Kobe Climbs North of West on Scoring List [WSJ]
Kobe Bryant slam-dunked his way past Jerry West in the third quarter on Monday night to become the Los Angeles Lakers’ all-time scoring leader. It was also fitting that Bryant’s point total in L.A.’s 95-93 loss to Memphis, 44, matched West’s number. He also passed West against the Grizzlies, the team West took over after he stopped running the Lakers. Bryant’s career total of 25,208 points places him 14th on the all-time list.
Video of the record-breaking bucket below.
»continue reading Kobe Bryant Becomes Lakers All-time Leading Scorer (Video)
By Losanjealous - Monday February 01st 2010 |
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Bad Religion @ House of Blues Anaheim Wed 3/17
Bad Religion @ House of Blues Anaheim Thu 3/18
Bad Religion @ House of Blues San Diego Fri 3/19
Bad Religion @ House of Blues San Diego Sat 3/20
Bad Religion @ House of Blues San Diego Sun 3/21
Bad Religion @ House of Blues Wed 3/24
Bad Religion @ House of Blues Thu 3/25
Bad Religion @ House of Blues Las Vegas Fri 3/26
Bad Religion @ House of Blues Las Vegas Sat 3/27
Bad Religion @ House of Blues Anaheim Wed 3/31
Bad Religion @ House of Blues Anaheim Thu 4/1
Bad Religion @ House of Blues Anaheim Fri 4/2
Formed in 1980 in the suburbs of Los Angeles by teenage friends; guitarist Brett Gurewitz, bassist Jay Bentley and singer Greg Graffin, with the additions of Greg Hetson (1984-Present), Brian Baker (1994-Present) and Brooks Wackerman (2001-Present), Bad Religion have become synonymous with intelligent and provocative West Coast punk rock and are considered one of the most influential and important bands in the genre. Over the past 3 decades the band has continually pushed social boundaries and questioned authority and beliefs armed only with propulsive guitars, charging drumbeats, thoughtful lyrics and an undying will to inspire and provoke anyone who will listen.
“The greatest feeling about this anniversary is that it is happening at all,” says Graffin. “I’m mostly uplifted by the fact that a vibrant and evolving punk scene still inspires young people all over the world. If Bad Religion somehow serves as a symbol for the lasting importance of punk, then I am satisfied beyond words by reaching this milestone.”
By Sung - Monday February 01st 2010 |
Any concerns we had were laid to rest as the KeyClub re-opened its doors last week. Mos Def, in town for the Grammy awards, performed to a packed audience ’til well past midnight. Overall, the club felt pretty much the same as before with no changes to the layout of the main or balcony level. The most noticeable change was the elimination of the “KeyClub” sign that used to hang prominently over the stage.
Key Club
KeyClub.com
By Victor - Monday February 01st 2010 |
By Losanjealous - Monday February 01st 2010 |
Not to validate the Grammys as actually meaning a damn thing, but it was pretty neat for them Followill boys to take a big one home for Record of the Year last night, sniping off the likes of BEP, Gaga, Beyonce and Taylor Swift in the category.
In honor of the win, we fished out a great old set by Carlie from their Sept. 2007 show at The Greek.
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